Maybe you’ve seen some of his books or his talk before, but I seem to have totally missed it! Swiss Artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli takes cleaning up to a whole new level, he organizes everyday life situation aswell as the art. ( check out his site where you can also try to organize some art yourself)
These are from his “art of clean up” series
I’ll let him do more of the talking and showing of his tyding of art in his ted talk!
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To bring some attention to ocean pollution and just how disgusting it really is, Surfrider Foundation teamed up with Satchi & Satchi LA to create “Catch of the Day.” Simply and brilliantly, they collected actual trash from beaches around the U.S., packaged it like food, and left it on display at farmer’s markets. It’s site-specific, appropriate, impacting, meaningful, shocking, and an actual consumer insight into the very act they’re in the middle of. Someone about to buy fish from the same ocean as the trash in their hands can’t help but be at least a little more enlightened as to how pollution isn’t someone else’s problem….
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Kyra van Ineveld made this very nice piece of work: The Wiki Truth.
This project consists of 5 enormous books about, well they ARE actually, the top 5 topics (pages) on Wikipedia: Barack Obama, the Catholic Church, Gaza war, global warming, and ‘race and intelligence’.
I love how taking data and forming it in a great design shows so much more that the pure data. The fact that you can go through the history of the information about the topic in the book, that you can see for real what an enormous amount of information is there to read online, what the top-5 says topic about the world nowadays, and how it changes over the years. Most of these topics do not exist that long at all (for a non digital medium).
Of course all the writers are getting their credits as well e.g. Missy_1987, TonyTheTiger and Anonymous225.
Note:
The first official encyclopedia ‘Naturalis Historia’dates from the 1st century AD and was written by Plinius de Oudere.
in this book there was still room for personal notes and comments, e.g. at the topic of the different continents in the world he concludes that the world has to more length than width so that he as to be a bot rounded because the sun is not always rising all over the world at the same time.
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Tagged book, bookdesign, Design Academy, Dutch, Eindhoven, enormous, graphic design, information, Kyra van Ineveld, Netherlands, new media, series, Wikipedia
I found this site from Jen Stark, and what more do i need to say about it….it’s just great work made ( mostly) out of paper.. check out the rest of her site for more great and colorfull work!
Born in La Belle Suisse, but Valérie Buess worked in Germany for the last 20 years with.. paper. She makes wonderfull and sometimes mesmerizing art with just folding, rolling or cutting paper. Next to that the 3D-sculptures are also shot in strange views. If you were looking for a new, recycled wallpaper stop looking and enjoy! This work reminds me a lot of one of our local artists, Suuz van de Vaart – who also creates new worlds of deadly cuddly factors, but with clay and plastic instead of paper….. (lifted offa – inlog.org)
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those who know, know we love our sushi… but this is taking it to the next NEXT NEEEEXT level.. watch some of the most gorgeous food I’ve seen in a while:
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This week I was at a conference ‘Curating Reality‘ of the Mediafonds and Sandberg Institute. their website is worth a visit, soon you should be able to listen back all the presentations of that day!)
One work of a Masterstudent at the Sandberg that was briefly presented was Common Currency, a project of Yuri Veerman which I really liked.
The project is an interpretation of the crisis presented in a new media.
Well have a look yourself an follow the twittering Lucy the Dollar, Alex the Euro, Misaki the Yen, Harry the Pound: http://www.commoncurrency.net/
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Well at least it’s cold over here in the Netherlands … so here are some things to keep you warm,
This is one of my favourites, 7 times warmer then normal socks the heatholder..and they really are warm!
If you like to stay in during the cold, here are some very good chill suits…
one piece sweatpant suits from onepiece, so cool so they are even worn on redcarpet events… and why wouldn’t you.
from JumpinJammerz.com for all you kiss fans!
And if you really have to go outside, here are 25 ways to wear your scarf.. ( or scrafs)
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Tagged computer graphics, future sound of london, idm, k7, old school computer graphics, the orb, x mix
Who does not love a nice sunset?
Although most of the time a picture does not reflect the real experience, people keep trying to capture the lightning and its colours during the moment the sun comes up/goes down.
Eric Cahan is an New York based artist that did succeed in capturing those moments in his photoseries SKY SERIES.
His work is about light, space,scale and volume.
If you’d like the sculptures on this image as well I recommend looking at the rest of his website too: http://ericcahan.com/.
I do have to say that these pictures are not photoshopped, digitally at least.
Eric Cahan uses a lot of filters used byfilmmakers and prints eacht print several times until the perfect result until they are, as he says himself ‘are seamless, free of banding or blemish.’
